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This Saturday will be the third and final meeting of “Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy” starting at 16:00. This week we’ll be reading ”Further Considerations on Afrofuturism" by Kodwo Eshun and some excerpts from “More brilliant than the sun," also by Eshun, and a chapter from Benjamin Noy’s “Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism." All relevant links can be found on the class page.

If you didn’t make it last time, but would like to attend this week, please do! Please make sure to add yourself to the class page if you haven't already as some more notes will be published in the next days. See you all soon.

This Saturday will be the second meeting of “Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy” starting at 16:00 (note the time change). As you can see from the image above, last weekend Sun Ra transmitted some light beams from somewhere on the astral plane that affected our screening of Space is the Place in delightful ways.

If you didn’t make it last time, but would like to attend this week, please do! You can get caught up on what we covered, by watching Space is the Place, which is on youtube (start here). We also watched a few minutes from Brother From Another Planet: The Sun Ra Story, which is also on youtube.

We have some exciting news: The Public School Berlin has a new home. We’ll be hosted by A Public Library, a new initiative currently located at the Bona-Peiser-Bibliothek in Berlin Kreuzberg (Oranienstr. 72, 10969 Berlin). We are grateful for all the support that our dear friends at Archive Kabinett provided for the school over the last three years and look forward to carry on this collaboration in a broader frame.

A Public Library will be open on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons so future TPSB classes will be taking place on those days. We plan to schedule many meetings and classes in the coming months: Please take a look at the recent proposals and add yourself if you are interested; make new proposals for things you’d like to see happen; or stop by when we hold our first classes later this month.

We’d also would like to do more classes in German, so don’t feel like you only need to propose in English!

As discussed in the last meeting, we will read and discuss Eduard Glissant's notion of 'Opacity' and the poetics of relations. I want to discuss the possible relation between opacity, eccentricity and Deleuze and Guattari's becoming minor. We are creating a constellation...let's see how they work (or don't) together ...

This Wednesday (19 September @ 19:00) we will be holding our first meeting of Political Fiction. The proposal and class emerged from discussions we had during The Aesthetics of Resistance reading group held last spring. For this week's meeting, "Rather than limiting the relation between politics and literature to a definition of Political Fiction as genre, I would suggest that we start our conversation from the more productive definition of 'minor literature.'" (from Federica who will be facilitating this week). Click here for the reading list. Also, we'll be planning out subsequent sessions at this meeting so if you have ideas on other things we can read in the future, please bring them!

The Public School

In 2007, The Public School was initiated in Los Angeles in the basement of Telic Arts Exchange. The Public School is a school with no curriculum. It is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.